The Paper Club: AI Wrapped 2025

​2025 has been a big year!

​Join us in the first edition of the paper club as we discuss around a few papers and have festive drinks in December 🎄

​Agenda:

• ​5pm - 5:30pm: Arrival and Sign in

• ​5:30pm - 7pm: The Paper Club

• ​7pm - 9pm: Festive drinks

​The Paper Club will be presenting 2 core topics this edition, led by a presenter to encourage thoughtful discussions:

• ​Reinforcement Learning: Pass@K Policy Optimization: Solving Harder Reinforcement Learning Problems [here], presented by Alan Malek

• ​Multimodal Models: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners [here], presented by Jamie Dborin

​We'll explore other topics including remote sensing, agentic evals in future editions, follow along for future announcements! Please reach out if (1) you have your own paper you'd like us to include (2) alternative suggestions on papers we should discuss (3) interest in being a presenter for the papers in the futre at [email protected]

​Who will be there:

• ​Organisers:

  • ​Zoe Qin, investor at Dawn Capital and creator of AI Engine

  • ​Akash Bajwa, principal at Earlybird VC and creator of Gradient Descending

  • ​Jamie Dborin, Co-founder of Doubleword.ai

• ​Participants:

  • ​Academic researchers

  • ​Researchers across AI labs

  • ​Startup founders

​*Not an official NeurIPS side event

​Best,

​Zoe, Akash and Jamie